Yohan Blake Quotes
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
Quotes to Explore
-
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
-
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
-
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
-
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
-
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
-
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
-
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
-
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
-
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
-
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
-
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
-
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
-
I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
-
For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
-
There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
-
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
-
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
-
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
-
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
-
Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm
-
Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.
-
My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
-
There are the most amusing things everywhere in The Netherlands. Houses of every colour, hundreds of windmills and enchanting boats, extremely friendly Dutchmen who almost all speak French... .I have not had time to visit the museums, I wish to work first of all and I'll treat myself to that later.
-
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
